DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSP. 1246— 1248. 999 



Stems woody, diffufe, branched ; leaves oppofite, feffile, linear, 

 obtufe, entire, glabrous, rough at the edge .• flowers in heads: 

 fcales of the calyx mucronate ; the inner-ones pubefcent. 



1246. ALECTRA. Calyx 2 -lipped ; the upper-lip 

 cloven, lower-one 3-cleft: corol funnel-form: 

 filaments bearded : capfule 2 -celled, double : 

 Jeeds folitary. 



captnsis, ALECTRA. 



The Cape. Tbunb. nov. gen. plant. 3. p. 82, 

 Stem erecl, fimplc, ftriate, villous; leaves fcattered, feffile, 

 ovate, obtufe : flowers fpiked, yellow with purple ftreaks. 



1247. PEDALIUM. C a b x 5 -parted : corol fome- 

 what ringent, with the border 5 -cleft: nut 

 corky, 4-fided, with fpinous angles, 2-celled: 



Jeeds 2. 



murex. Pedalium. 



India. Burm % Ind. t. 45. /'. 2. llheed. Mai. TO. t. 72. 

 Stem fimple 1 leaves oppofite, obovate, obtufe, truncate, naked, 

 with glandular petioles: flowers axillary, folitary. 



1248. MELIANTHUS. Calyx 5 -leaved; the 

 lower leafet gibbous: petals 4, with the nec- 

 tary beneath the lowefl : cap/ale 4- celled. 



Honey -flower. 

 major. Stipules folitary, growing to the petiole. 



The Cape- Mill, illuflr. Herm. lugdb. f, 415. 



minor. Stipules difUnc"t: racemes axillary, elongated: flowers 



whorled : 'oracles linear, tapering. 

 The Cape. Leaves hoary underneath, glabrous abuve. 

 comosus'. Stipules diftincl: : jacemes below the leaves: flowers alter- 

 nate : bractes heart- fhaped: leaves villous abeve. 

 The Cape. Comm. rar. 4. /. 4. Vabl.jyrnb. 3. p. 86. 

 Thefe are all Jbrubs with alternate unequally pinnate leaves on 

 a winged petiole: flowers in fpikes. The firft, if fhaken 

 while in flower, difcharges a fliower of ne&ar. 



